Posts tagged with "Outlander"

Outlander S02E05 “Untimely Resurrection” REVIEW
Airing in the UK on Amazon Prime Instant Video, new episodes every Sunday
Writer: Richard Kahan
Director: Douglas Mackinnon
Essential Plot Points:
Jamie and Murtagh are briefly imprisoned in the Bastille after the fracas at the party but are bailed out by Duverney. Alex remains in there for the suspected rape of Mary.
Mary gives Claire a letter to deliver to the Bastille stating that...

Outlander S02E04 “La Dame Blanche” REVIEW
Airing in the UK on Amazon Prime Instant Video, new episodes every Sunday
Writer: Toni Graphia
Director: Douglas Mackinnon
Essential Plot Points:
When Claire collapses in pain while attending a meeting between Duverney and Jamie she suspects the Comte St Germain (who’s lurking in the shows) is behind it.
Jamie comes up with a plan: he and Claire will throw a dinner party, and invite both...

Outlander S02E03 “Useful Occupations And Deceptions” REVIEW
Airing in the UK on Amazon Prime Instant Video, new episodes every Sunday
Writer: Anne Kenney
Director: Metin Hüseyin
Essential Plot Points:
Jamie is becoming weary of galloping around France to endless meetings with various power players while Claire is growing bored stuck at home in Paris, having her do her own darning because her maid is too busy shagging Murtagh.
During...

Outlander S02E02 “Not In Scotland Anymore” REVIEW
Airing in the UK on Amazon Prime Instant Video, new episodes every Sunday
Writer: Ira Steven Behr
Director: Metin Hüseyin
Essential Plot Points:
Jamie and Claire have been in Paris for several weeks running the wine business and trying to make contacts both in court and with the Jacobite rebels.
Jamie is still having nightmares about his rape and torture by Jack Randall even though...

Outlander S02E01 “Through A Glass, Darkly” REVIEW
Airing in the UK on Amazon Prime Instant Video, new episodes every Sunday
Writer: Ronald D Moore
Director: Metin Hüseyin
Essential Plot Points:
Claire wakes up in the stone circle of Craigh na Dun in 1948.
She is very distressed and wanders onto a road. When a car driver slows down to ask if she’s okay, she demands to know whether the Scots won Culloden. She’s not...

••• For the record, Deadpool director Tim Miller has confirmed to Collider beyond doubt that the “ship” that’s the location of the big battle at the end of the film is NOT a helicarrier, nosiree no, Mr Marvel movies lawyer person. Though it’s amazing we’re able to understand what he’s saying considering how his tongue seems to be in his cheek. [via ComicBook.com]
••• Diego Luna (Elysium, Y Tu Mamá También, Star Wars: Rogue...

Starz has released a set of character portraits for the second season of time travel romance (with lots of icky bits) Outlander. With the new season largely set in the decadent French court of the 18th century there’s a definite change in aesthetic with the new characters: mud and tartan replaced by ostentatious frocks and fanciful wigs. We’re glad to see, though, that the supporting cast of surly Scots hasn’t been completely sidelined as...

Who fancies some Outlander season two action? Starz in the US has released a new featurette for the fantasy romance (which gets very dark at times) which shows more of what the show’s going to look like as it relocates to France. After all the mud and blood of season one it looks a very different series but we bet there’s some nastiness and depravity waiting around le coin. Season two should turn up in the UK on Amazon’s streaming service soon.
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Jamie and Claire get to wear more colourful costumes in season two of Outlander, as the action moves to decadent French high society under the reign of King Louis XV. There they hope to change history by preventing the Jacobite risings by subverting the funds that Louis is providing to the pretender Charles Stuart.
Starz has just released the new trailer, which features the obligatory Claire-and-Jamie in bed scene. This will have either followed...